Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Today in the Garbage I found...

I've always appointed my home with stuff I find in the garbage.

In these days of the growth economy more good stuff is thrown out for garbage than at any time in history. The false economy of the ever expanding economy clicks nicely with the neurosis of consumerism, where many people who are existentially burdened find temporary solace in an addiction to buying the new new. As such, the stuff being thrown out is getting newer and newer. And, at the end of a long period of a relatively enlightened economy, where things were built to last, the garbage being thrown out up until about right now, is of excellent quality.

Don't get me wrong, I'm rich; richer than you can imagine - and I don't re-use old beds or bedding, shoes or underwear... but that about all I don't.

Since losing everything I owned in a robbery last year I have since appointed my new home with:

3 fast, gigantic computers

An LED flat screen monitor

2 computer keyboards

2 sets of amplified computer speakers

A cute black goose-neck lamp

2 televisions (the first one had distortion in the top 1/5 of the screen, I found a better one, a fake 'flat screen' model, with remote!)

A beautiful solid maple three drawer bureau - hand made!

2 area rugs

A classic 1950's chrome toaster with automatic pop-up

A set of 1/8 inch jack headphones

An AM/FM dual cassette CD amplifier 'boom box'

A cute dark blue and white flies-head shaped portable CD Cassette player with AM/FM radio

Lower Don River Flood Cam

Camera Location: Dundas Street at eastern edge of the Don Valley camera swivels periodically - north, then south.(Click on image for newest - image opens in new tab/window. City of Toronto Rescue camera feed updates once a minute, usually)
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World War 3 (Ukraine)

Charles Shoebridge - @ShoebridgeC Currently covering news and events from Ukrainian Civil War. Over time, this former army officer, Scotland Yard detective and counter terrorism intelligence officer, international politics graduate, lawyer, broadcaster and writer has shown me he seeks the truth - whatever that happens to be.Tweets by @ShoebridgeC

Blog author Michael Holloway has been (hopefully) perspicuously describing the universe since 2006 - as part of a self directed study in a variety of disciplines. If you like, my email is: michaelholloway111(at)gmail.com

Occupy Movement

10 February 2014

The general perception is that Occupy is over.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

The System is critically broken. You can help replace it with one that represents the People's interests - rather than the interests of the few - represented now by a dieing Republic and her allies in a New World Order - an American Empire.

This end of democracy - and possibly of the enlightenment - ushers in a corporatism - a reflection of the Nazi state - refined now with the social barometers of the surveillance state in an IT revolution.
With it's endless global war, and it's rapacious 'always on' dog-eat-dog economy, the corporate state creates nothing but fear and loathing, via the terrorism of the market place: a thin strata of highly-paid professionals serving the 1%; feed by a great under-class of skilled, subsistence workers - it creeps thus into every street, into every mind, in every country of the globe.

The grotesque thing is a relic of the past - a desease that wants to bury us all with it as is contorts like a cancer into death itself.

The People's Movements are digging in to protect our democracy; developing deep roots and strength in every community.

This spring may be an awakening of every mind; of every town square. Of every country.

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The past 2 years I covered every stage race of the Tour de France at BikingToronto. "Live Blogging" almost every stage, I also wrote a summary pieces on many stages which included some funny takes on the metrics of team bicycle racing. Also you can re-live the progress of Victoria BC's Ryder Hesjedal who, after rising to, and holding on to 3rd place for several stages, finished the 2010 Tour de France in 7th place over all.
Have a look my BikingToronto Blog, "@Blog_FreeWheel" "2010 Tour de France" and the "2011 Tour de France" tags.

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After some articles are 'put to bed' at FilterBlogs they get a Longtail Posthumous Aperitif ; links to related articles published after my original post linked at the top of articles - towards a better user experience for you, the reader:

A breakdown of "Posthumous Longtail Aperitif":

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As I continue to add these relevant 'Tweets' the result will be an ongoing re-crawl by search bots; better connecting my posts in search and adding to the 'intelligence' of the Google Search algorithm. Your welcome :)

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From the blog: What Fresh Hell Is This?

May 18, 2009

Drink drivers

If you're not supposed to drink and drive how the hell am I going to drive myself to drink?

NEWS FROM THE FRONTS

Voyager Bridge, Janeway. Attack on the Time Ship in "Year of Hell, Part II".(Print-Scrn frame copyright Viacom)
Part of Voyager's hull is sheared off in a collision in battle with the 'Time Ship'.
Later Captain Janeway rams the hulk of her ship into her nemesis - destroying the Time Ship's 'Temporal Core', and thus restoring the Time Line.
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We did not invent the algorithm. The algorithm consistently finds Jesus. The algorithm killed Jeeves. To be is the algorithm. The algorithm is banned in China. The algorithm is from Jersey. The algorithm constantly finds Jesus.This is not the algorithm.This is close.

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